Thank you Dale. I appreciate your updating me. My birth for Elizabeth was a typo as I did have it correctly in my facts, ca 1624. Glad to have it brought to my attention.>:) Lynde ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale H. Cook" <radiotest@plymouthcolony.net> To: <GenMassachusetts@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 5:10 PM Subject: Re: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] Alden and Mullens > At 02:14 PM 12/1/2008, Lynde C. Randall wrote: > >>1 JOHN [MF] ALDEN b: 1599 in Harwich, Essex, England d: 12 Dec 1687 in >>Duxbury, Plymouth, MA ae 88 > > Let me point out a few corrections. John died on 12-Sep-1687, not > 12-Dec. The only contemporary record of his death is in the diary of > Judge Samuel Sewall, who in 1687 wrote "Monday, Sept. 12. Mr. John > Alden, the ancient Magistrate of Plimouth, died." ["Diary of Samuel > Sewall, 1674-1729" in Collections of the Massachusetts Historical > Society, 5th Series, Vols. 5, 6 & 7, 1878-82; specifically 5:190]. It > is likely that he died in Duxbury, as he had lived there for decades. > >>.. +PRISCILLA [MF] MULLINS b: 1602 in Dorking, Surrey, England m: 12 May >>1623 in Plymouth, Plymouth, MA d: 1680 in Plymouth, Plymouth, MA > > The date of the marriage of John and Priscilla is not known. It was > certainly prior to the division of land in 1623 [PCR 12:3-6; MD, 1 > [1899]:227-230]. > > The year of Priscilla's death is not known. She was with John at > Josiah Winslow's funeral in 1680, but died before John, as she was > not mentioned in the 1687 settlement of his estate [MD 3:10-12]. It > is likely that she died in Duxbury, as she and John had lived there > for decades. > >>.... 2 ELIZABETH ALDEN b: 1644 d: 31 May 1717 in Little Compton, Newport, >>RI >>........ +WILLIAM PEABODY /Pabodie b: 1620 in St. Albans, Hertshire, >>England >>m: 26 Dec 1644 in Duxbury, Plymouth, MA d: 13 Dec 1707 in Little Compton, >>Newport Newport Co., RI > > Note that Elizabeth could not have been born in 1644 if she was > married on 26-Dec-1644. She was likely born about 1624, and the first > of the Alden children, in order to have married in 1644. Her > gravestone at Little Compton says that she died "in the 94th year of > her age" [NEHGR 115:263] which supports a birth about 1624. > > I do > > Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; > Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project > Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net > > ____________________________________________________________ > Wanna lose weight? Weight Loss Programs that work. Click here. > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/PnY6rw1mBf8K3ZInvbwz42Jvi1RP1By5uaoZn1hhCLcQ0M8kADCNE/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GENMASSACHUSETTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >